If you want to know the future of Ferrari, you will have to wait until 2012. In an interview with Automotive News Europe, Ferrari Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo said 2012 is when the company will produce the supercar…
Hyundai Motor unveiled its first electric car Thursday — the BlueOn — as it moves to catch up with Japanese rivals that have jumped ahead in the field. Hyundai showed off the car on the grounds of Seoul’s hillside…
We all want to save the world. It’s just that some want to save it for longer than others. So along comes the Nissan Leaf, the 100 percent electric car that tries to persuade us that the world is worth…
The U.S. version of Mitsubishi’s i-MiEV electric minicar will be bigger and include more features than its Japanese and European counterparts when it arrives here in late 2011. Gregory Adams, Mitsubishi Motors North America’s recently appointed head of marketing…
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander has been a vocal critic of several of Democratic President Barack Obama’s policies, but he said Wednesday that encouraging the development of electric cars is not one of them. Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, said there is…
Electric vehicle charging stations will connect three cities in Tennessee, in a project that backers says bridges the 100-mile limit of electric cars. The Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday is hosting a one-day conference to unveil a “blueprint” for the…
What will happen when millions of electric vehicles plug into the grid at at the same time? If ZigBee Alliance’s blueprints for the SmartGrid go according to plan, not much. The ugly specter of mass blackouts caused by hoards of…
Once again, European drivers will have access to cars with better gas mileage than their U.S. counterparts. Peugeot announced Tuesday that its 3008 Hybrid4 diesel hybrid car will be available in Europe in spring 2011 and will get roughly…
Who knew that electric cars could be fun to drive and practical at the same time? Those were my impressions recently after test-driving the all-electric Nissan Leaf and the plug-in Chevrolet Volt, two new cars that will reach showroom floors…
Plugin electric vehicles are expected to stream onto the roads over the next few years, but some drivers may be put off by fears that they could be left stranded if their battery runs out of charge. Zafer Sahinoglu…